Zakir Naik – Living Life for the Wrong Purpose

The topic

of

this evening's talk is

the purpose

of creation.

This

question, what is

the purpose

of creation,

arises

in the mind

of every individual,

sometime or the other,

irrespective

whether he's rich or poor,

king or pauper,

black or white,

yellow or brown, whether he lives in America

or UK, whether he lives in India or

Saudi Arabia. This question,

some time or the other, crops up in

the mind of each and every individual.

Why have we been created?

Why are we here?

What is our purpose in this world?

And

most of the human beings,

they think

that

there has to be a supreme creator,

there is almighty God. And because of him,

we are here.

However,

there is a minority

who do not believe

in the existence

of the creator of almighty God,

and they assume

that the full world

has come into existence by chance.

And we human beings too,

we have come into being by chance.

Suppose

you see on the beach

the footprints of a human being.

Immediately, a logical person,

he thinks

that these footprints have been created

by the walking of a person.

A logical person will not

assume

that the footprints came into existence by chance,

or the footprints came into existence by the

waves coming on the beach, and when the

waves went away, it created these footprints.

A logical person will realize

that these footprints have been created by a

person. It had a purpose

why it was created.

This question,

what is the purpose of creation,

can be answered

in 2 perspectives.

Number 1,

from the perspective

of the creator,

that

is almighty God. And second,

by the perspective

of the creation

that is human being.

The first perspective is

the view of the creator almighty God. What

caused him

to create the human being,

what caused him to create this creation,

And number 2, from the perspective of the

creation, that the human beings,

that why were we created

by almighty God?

Those people

who do not

agree

in the existence

of almighty God and believe that we have

come in this world by mere chance.

According to this philosophy,

there is no difference

between the human beings and all the other

creation.

All have come by chance. Even the human

beings as well as the animals.

So these people do not have a particular

purpose in life at all.

They don't have a purpose for existence, and

they live the same way

as the animals,

drink, sleep,

rest, and procreate. That's it. So the purpose

of the animals and the human beings become

the same, to eat, to drink,

to rest, to sleep, and to procreate.

And because they don't have a purpose,

they try and strive

excellence

in eating, in drinking, in living,

and they become materialistic.

And that's the reason for such people,

materialism

becomes a god.

And because of this,

the same people,

they create drugs

just to own money, to have a better

living.

They create bombs

and weapons of mild destruction.

They involve in fornication,

in adultery, in homosexuality,

in *.

It doesn't make a difference to them

whether they make drugs

or whether they involve themselves in *.

The main purpose is just nothing but materialism.